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From: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: oleg@okmij.org
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Delimited continuations in OCaml go to 3.12 and 64
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:38:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72B69466-3FAC-41AC-96ED-6024DCBD341A@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100823013458.D1A5517415@Adric.ern.nps.edu>


Is there any tutorial on why such features are useful ?
Concrete examples of their use. For instance can you implement
python generators and its yield stuff by using this library ?

The only reference mentioned in the source is a technical report that
does not look very easy to read.

On Aug 22, 2010, at 6:34 PM, oleg@okmij.org wrote:

> 
> 
> The library delimcc implements multi-prompt delimited control operators
> for byte- and native-code OCaml. The library now can be used with
> OCaml 3.12.0, on x86_32 and x86_64 (aka amd64) platforms.
> 
> The byte-code part of the previous versions of delimcc could
> already be used with OCaml 3.12 (although I didn't know that). Since
> OCaml byte-code is portable, the byte-code delimcc should work on
> any supported architecture. In this version, some adjustments have
> been made to scAPI to make in more portable. It should be stressed
> that there are _no_ distinct versions of the native-code delimcc, for
> 32- and 64-bit architectures. Rather, the same code (without any
> 64-bit--specific ifdefs) works on x86_32 and x86_64. Only
> C code differs between byte-code and native-code versions of the
> library; the OCaml code is shared, across the versions and the
> architectures. The current version of delimcc probably works on other
> architectures like arm, although I have no means of testing that.
> 
> The byte- and native-code versions of library has been tested on i386
> Linux and FreeBSD platform and on amd64 Linux platform. The code is at
> 
> 	http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/caml-shift.tar.gz
> 
> I thank Jim Pryor for help with testing.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-23 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-23  1:34 oleg
2010-08-23 21:38 ` Yoann Padioleau [this message]
2010-08-24  1:20   ` [Caml-list] " Jake Donham
2010-08-24  6:53   ` Generators in OCaml oleg

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